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Revision as of 19:17, 19 November 2009
This is a type of question structure in which usually an auxiliary and a pronoun attach to the end of a sentence. It can either have a negative or positive connotation. In English, for example the sentence "He isn't a doctor, is he?" is a tag question.
- Tag Questions in Gaelic: Tag Questions
See Also
External Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_question
http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsATagQuestion.htm
References
- Crystal, David. (1997) A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. Oxford, UK: Blackwell.
